Improved floor for malt-kilns



new $123125 fittest Gtjljiina Letters Patent No. 93,701, dated August17, 1869.

/ IMPROVED I'LOQR FOR MALT-KILHS.

Theschedule referred tolin these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern .the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents avertical longitudinal section of my improved kiln-floor.

Figure 2 is a plan or top view, partly in section, of the same.

' Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new manner of .eonstruct-. ing malt-kilnfloors of longitudinal wires, and has for its ,object to avoid anyprojection on the drying-surface.

Wire floors have already been made, in-which the several wires were tiedtogether by small transverse wires fitted around them.

Such transverse wires were in the way of the grain, while the same wasturned and. moved on the floor, and much grain. was thereby crushed andlost.

My invention consists in winding the wires around cross-bars, belowtheln,so that the surface of the floor will be smooth andwithout-projections.

A A, in the drawing, represent a series of solid or ,hollowaransversecross-beams or bars, made preferably of iron, although they can also bemade of other suitable material. They are, with their ends fitted intoor supported, onthc walls'of the kiln.

B B are the longitudinal wires that constitute the floor.

Each wire B is wound around each cross-bar from above, and stretchedbetween the cross-bars, so as to be smooth and without projections abovethe said cross-bars.

The various wires are laidas close together as practicable, the spacesbetween them being diminished, if desired, by compressing or narrowingthe wires by filing, or otherwise, where they are wound around thecross-bars.

The floor, thus made, will be perfectly smooth. The spaces between thewires are sufficiently large to admit the requisite quantity of air tothe malt.

In case it should be desirable to'usc the wires B, in sections, thejunctions between the several pieces are made, where they are woundaround the cross-bars, as indicated at a in the drawing.

The cross-beams can also be made in pieces that? are dovetailed orjointed at their junctions, as in fig. 2, and riveted together, asshown.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patcnt- Themalt-kilnfloor, consisting of the wires B B, which are wound around thecross-bars A, toform a smooth upper surface, substantially as hereinshown and described.

\VIL'LIAM GERHARD, JR.

\Vitnesses E. G. DURANT, N. S. CLEMENT.

